Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014

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Receipt of crime scene evidence from law enforcement agency

145. (1) The Commissioner may arrange for evidence taken from a crime scene (including crime scene samples) received from a law enforcement agency to be compared with intimate samples and non-intimate samples taken under this Act for the purposes of the investigation of criminal offences in a place (whether within or outside the State).

(2) The Commissioner may provide to the law enforcement agency that supplied the evidence from a crime scene under subsection (1) information relating to the results of any comparison of it with intimate samples and non-intimate samples taken under this Act other than information relating to the identity of any person from whom an intimate sample or a non-intimate sample was taken under this Act.

(3) The Director of FSI shall compare, or arrange for the comparison of, any evidence sent to him or her by the Commissioner under subsection (1) with any intimate samples or non-intimate samples taken under this Act that are in his or her possession.